Aminatta Forna Quotes
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.
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Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
